{"id":11810,"date":"2024-10-25T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2024-10-25T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:48:55","slug":"11810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=11810","title":{"rendered":"MIDDLE SEA RACE 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle Sea Race, one of the great 600 milers of ocean racing. I had the great pleasure of sailing in 2009. Bugs Baer chartered a 61 foot (Nix) boat for the race and called in many of his former crew.<\/p>\n<p>Malta is a spectacular place. the race is a challenging one with many turning marks and the curious Mediterranean weather.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 74 boats started and 30 some either withdrew or sank the first night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MIDDLE SEA RACE 2009\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y3umXsUbeFI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle Sea Race, one of the great 600 milers of ocean racing. I had the great pleasure of sailing in 2009. Bugs Baer chartered a 61 foot (Nix) boat for the race and called in many of his former crew. Malta is a spectacular place. the race is a challenging one with many turning &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=11810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MIDDLE SEA RACE 2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,32,278,275,976,277],"tags":[2926,2927,466,2400],"class_list":["post-11810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brian-thompson","category-bugs-baer","category-malta","category-middle-sea-race-2009","category-sicily","category-yacht-nix","tag-600-milers","tag-mediterranean","tag-middle-sea-race","tag-ocean-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11813,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11810\/revisions\/11813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}